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I came to TN from Mass myself.  You might find the food options a bit limited, and the summers too hot, but everything else will be a big improvement.  As far as shooting and off-roading, the only limitations you will probably run into will involve finding time in your schedule.   Try to contain your surprise when dealing with the realtors...you won't want to tip them off that even their initial offers blow real estate prices in Mass out of the water.

I always put generic names on anything that is shown in a connection, usually the manufacturer or model if the generic setup isn't obscure enough.  My phone shows up as android-(lots of letters and numbers), the SSID of the access point for my wireless modem is WAPR300N.  Nothing special given away for anybody to see at a casual glance.

Looks like the push for a baby step trial run on commercial drone use has already started.  http://m.bbc.com/news/business-31975464

  It's 2015.  I find it inexcusable that a simple renewal process such as a HCP renewal isn't available online. 

  Don't see anything about online renewal in the instructions, or in the links on the side.  The only website on my permit is tn.gov.  Unless they set up online renewals with this change to a 5-year length of permit, you should still have to go to the drivers center to renew. http://www.tn.gov/safety/handgun/renewals.shtml

If it was about convenience, they would simply allow HCP renewals to be conducted online like they do with drivers licenses.  This is all so they can say Tennessee has a "lifetime permit system in place."  It's a rip off from a money standpoint, and it's an insult from a handgun owners standpoint. 

"I am shocked- shocked- to find that gambling is going on in here!"   Anybody who thinks decisions are made in committees or open meetings doesn't understand politics.

As Homer Simpson taught us, who needs a bottle opener when you have a gun?

If you guys have any links to the Texas case, I'd like to see them.  Having some trouble with my own Google-fu.    I'm pretty sure no state court can invalidate a federal law, just refuse to enforce it with state resources.  So, unless the machine gun cases are being filed and won in the federal district and circuit courts in D.C., it isn't going to do anything but give a moral victory.

  She's open to the idea of carrying, and wants to get an HCP to have one, but this is primary home/vehicle defense.  She told me she doesn't want a compact, or something too big.  So, I'm looking into things that are around the size of a Glock 19, Walther P99, or an M&P9.  She put her budget at $500-$600, so she can afford one of the higher quality pistols.  I think she can narrow it down to a few models she likes the look and feel of, then we can go into the shooting phase.  I'm not interested in breaking the bank on rentals since I know some places charge a bit and make you use their store bought ammo to do so.    If she get's into guns, and wants to keep changing models, fine.  But for right now, I just want her to make a good purchase and be squared away on when/how to use it if it ever comes to that.

...and he has the nerve to make the buyer pay for shipping. 

  I use USAA for checking, savings, credit card, auto, renters & personal property insurance.  Never had any complaints.  Easy to use website, easier to get an actual person on the phone than any other bank I've ever seen.  Some people are turned off by the lack of a physical bank to go into, but I haven't needed it.   They also refund fees you get for using other banks ATM's up to $15 per month, which is great.  Anybody who is eligible to bank with them should give it a try.  They allow anybody who served in the armed forces, plus family members of those who served.

I think I'll pass on giving my email to Newsmax.  They know which way their readers will vote in a poll, and are only fishing for email addresses so they can turn around and re-sell them to third parties.    Don't believe me, just read their privacy policy. Newsmax may disclose your Personal Data to unaffiliated third parties if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary (a) to comply with applicable laws, rules, or regulations, or to preserve Newsmax’s legal rights in the Newsmax Offerings’ content, whether the same arises from contract or through force of law; (b ) to provide you with any services, information, special offers, promotions or products you requested or consented to and to allow us to perform other activities related to such services and products; or (c ) to operate these Newsmax Offerings and other of Newsmax’s systems properly. Newsmax may also share your Personal Data with a sponsor or other third party that is interested in serving you ("Third-Party Providers"). You may instruct us at any time not to share your Personal Data with such Third-Party Providers by contacting us in the manner provided under "Your Choices Regarding Personal Data Collection and Use".     As to the bills you linked, already discussed in a couple of places elsewhere in this very sub-forum.  Finding and reading those threads will give you some good background on them.  I know I learn a good bit when going into them.

Your profile says you were in the military, so I'd  ask you to strongly consider USAA.  They are hands down, the best bank I've ever dealt with.  The only complaint I've ever heard about them is they aren't the greatest at mortgage loans, but I can speak from experience that everything I've done with them is top notch.

  Sequential jobs alone aren't steps for higher office.  National candidates need a national profile and Haslam isn't even a blip on anybody's radar outside of Tennessee.  If he was thinking White House, he would be parlaying the success of Tennessee to his benefit, using his spot as Chairman of the Republican Governors Association to get himself on the usual TV shows, giving speeches at think tanks, writing a book, ect....   Is it possible he runs for President in 2020 or after that...sure.  But nothing I see from him on the national level speaks to that.  Short of being put onto the Republican ticket as VP candidate, I don't see him in a national election.

Getting her to try them out at a range is on the "to-do" list, but we're at the very basic stages here.  Her total experience with guns has been to hold mine, thus, the slow approach to get her into shooting, and more importantly, trained right.  It also isn't a right now thing as we both have school and work to schedule around.   My goal is to get her to feel comfortable with the feel and mechanics of about 2-3 models, then go into the test fire mode with the ones she chooses.  She has said she doesn't want a compact, so the Ruger and Shield would be out.  An SR9 is an option, and I already had the M&P9 on the list.    We'll either do all this around Murfreesboro, or possibly Knoxville (where she lives), which is why I was asking for more of a general consensus of handling shelf guns with snap caps would be acceptable. 

So, a lady friend of mine is interested in buying her first gun, doing the HCP class, ect... and is trusting me to guide her to this decision.  I've already decided she would probably work best with a striker fired 9mm.  Problem is, I haven't had to buy a pistol in 11 years since I love mine so much and am a bit out of date on what a local gun shop will allow.   Would bringing snap caps to an LGS be considered bad form?  I'd like her to practice loading, unloading, and to get a feel for the differences in trigger pull so she can know what she's dealing with before paying in the neighborhood of $500-$600 and walking out the door with it.

They don't need ideas...they just need to propose a vague, half heated idea, then sit back and watch the gun community eat it's own while ammo prices artificially inflate.   As has been said often here, "we're our own worst enemies sometimes."

  I've driven that exact same route since my fathers house is another 1.5 hours north of Harrisburg.   The part through Maryland goes by in about 20-25 minutes, and shouldn't be too bad traffic wise.  Not enough of a hassle to warrant a detour for me.

  The two that stick out in my class were a girl shooting a gun for the first time in her life with a small hammer-less revolver, and a guy that, no joke, got winded from the live firing.  You can imagine what those conditions will do to someones shot patterns.    My instructor was very adamant that his class was tailored to the requirements of instruction from TN Dept. of Safety and shouldn't be considered as the end of a new shooters training, just the beginning. 

With the way officers are bunched up in that type of situation, they present themselves as an area target instead of individual point targets.  Would make it easier for a longer shot to result in a hit if they did fire from as far away as 125yds.

I really don't think this is a big deal in the grand scheme.  Just posturing for the C-SPAN cameras as usual on the part of the politicians, and a pro forma story by the Washington Examiner to get page views, forwards, shares, ect...   This was a routine hearing on the FY 2016 Budgets for federal Law Enforcement Agencies, and the talk about the green tip ban was more or less dropped in Also, you need to read between the lines of what Director Jones said (taken from the transcript). "NOW, I DO BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO TAKE WORK ACROSS THE BOARD, BUT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT ATF ALONE IS GOING TO DO THROUGH A REGULATORY PROCESS."   So, you have a Senator from Connecticut, who is as pro gun control as it gets, asking a question during a hearing, and the ATF Director telling him in political speak that this isn't something the ATF can get away with on their own, they would need Congressional help.  You can watch the hearing here.  The Green Tip issues is addressed briefly at the 34:50 mark, and the bit from Sen. Murphy begins at 1:08:55 and has more depth.     On the plus side, from the prepared opening remarks, the ATF director had this to say in his opening statement about the budget request. In addition, ATF’s FY 2016 budget includes one program enhancement-$8.1 million to continue increasing capacity and reducing backlogs at ATF’s Martinsburg, WV, facility. This increase will allow ATF to add 10 Legal Instrument Examiners as well as additional contract support to continue to reduce the back log in processing National Firearms Act (NFA) registrations.

  With the way gun rights are on the up in the last few years, and still rising in nationwide sentiment, I would think someone who runs as a Republican would want to be on the winning side.  I'm sure he noticed how enthused a primary challenge Lamar got from Joe Carr. Covering the right flank is required for Tennessee Republicans now.   With the healthcare thing, he wanted federal money infused into the state.  But politicians don't run on failures, so unless he can swing it his way, he'll ignore that loss on his record.   As for his not taking a salary, like John F. Kennedy, I think it was meant to preempt any talk about how rich he is by avoiding money talk altogether.    Nothing in Haslam's actions as governor make me think he is running for a federal office.

  I dunno.  I get the feeling that Gov. Haslam is ready to go back to the private sector after his 2nd term.  His actions on the Medicare expansion, and his recent open opposition to gun bills are leading me to that conclusion.    Check out the chutzpa he's showing in this story.  Nobody Republican who has a Senate run in mind would stick himself out like that.

  Lamar just got re-elected, so his term runs until 2020.  It's Corker who's seat will be up in the 2018 election.    Unless a Republican wins in 2016 and gives Corker a cabinet appointment (SecState seems most appropriate with his chairing the Foreign Relations committee) he will probably run again.